Addiel de Alba Solis receives scholarship

Second-year ACE student Addiel de Alba Solis has been awarded a scholarship from the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), México’s equivalent of the U.S. National Science Foundation.

“This award will allow me to fund my second year of master studies in the ACE program,” he says. The scholarship covers 100% payment of tuition and fees, as well as a monthly stipend.

De Alba Solis is currently working on a project called “Instrumented Beehive.” “I want to study and model the emergent parameters of swarm intelligence,” he says. “I am gathering and visualizing the data, and filtering this data through the dynamical systems framework of Chaos Theory. It is my hope to use this data in computer simulations of the insect colony behaviour, for example, honeycomb construction, pheromone communications, foraging activities.”
The CONACYT scholarship exists to support Mexican students studying abroad who are pursuing graduate degrees. Addiel says the award was a great help at a critical time in his research “because it allows me to work on the project full time.”
You can learn more about CONACYT by following the links:

http://www.conacyt.mx/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONACYT